Young still jailed, son's mother gets restraining order

May 17, 2013
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This image provided by the Orange County Sheriff√≠s Department shows the booking photo of former Detroit Lions wide receiver Titus Young who was arrested late Friday May 10, 2013. Authorities say Young has been arrested in California for the third time in a week. He has been charged with attempted burglary, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. / AP

by David Leon Moore, USA TODAY Sports

by David Leon Moore, USA TODAY Sports

SANTA ANA, Calif. ‚?? The behavior and comments of former NFL receiver Titus Young were enough to prompt his ex-girlfriend to file for a restraining order. "He will say things like, 'I understand why O.J. killed his wife,' " she wrote. "He says that 'we're always gonna be a family, and I'm always going to be his.'"

Marjani Maldonado, the mother of his 8-month-old son, was granted a temporary restraining order against the jailed football player earlier this month. On Friday, the motivations or demons behind Young's recent crime spree in Southern California remained shrouded in mystery as his family continued to decline to post his $25,000 bail.

Young was arraigned earlier this week on three felonies and five misdemeanors involving burglaries, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer in Orange County. He also faces potential prosecution on DUI and burglary charges in nearby Riverside County.

He has been in jail since Saturday. Three days prior to that, Maldonado of Loma Linda, Calif., was granted a temporary restraining order against Young, the father of their son, Titus Young Jr.

The 23-year-old wide receiver, who played for the Detroit Lions but is not under contract with a team, was ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from Maldonado and their son, as well as Maldonado's mother, Lisa Bailey, and her brother, Kyman Bailey.

In asking for the order, Maldonado wrote that Young has been clinically diagnosed with a mental disorder.

"I am afraid of what he is capable of doing," she wrote. "He says off-the-wall remarks and is very unpredictable. He is always threatening to beat other people up. He also has been in a mental help (sic) facility more than once, and still believes that he does not have a problem. ...

"He has got mad and yelled at my neighbors and tried to fight multiple people that he doesn't even know. He does irrational things like start talking to himself and go on walks and don't return."

Maldonado also wrote that Young, who is charged with robbing a gas station, "stole some things out of a gas station while he was holding our son. ... He is not afraid of any authority."

Young's father, Richard Young, told USA TODAY Sports, "My son is not a bad kid. Really, he's not a bad kid. He's just going through some problems."

Young previously had told the Detroit Free-Press that Young was supposed to enter a treatment facility before his arrest.

Young is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on the Orange County charges May 24.

His private attorney, Altus W. Hudson II, has declined to comment but said the family would make a statement at some point.